werst

Adjective

worst

1. Most inferior; doing the least good.
   • I think putting oil on a burn is the worst thing you can do.
2. Most unfavorable.
   • That's the worst news I've had all day.
3. Most harmful or severe.
   • The worst storm we had last winter knocked down our power lines.
4. Used with the definite article and an implied noun: something that is worst.
   • None of these photographs of me are good, but this one is definitely the worst.

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Noun

verst (plural versts)

1. A Russian unit of length, equivalent to about 1.07 kilometres or about ²⁄₃ of a mile.
   • |The hill Pulkowa, twelve miles (seventeen wersts) south of Admiralty Palace in St. Petersburg, […]1849, "The Observatory at Pulkowa" The North American Review Volume 0069 Issue 144 (July 1849)